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Esternita Watkins, 42, became an American citizen nearly two years ago, wearing a green dress and a big smile at her naturalization ceremony in Montgomery, Alabama. She’d been living in the U.S. since 2015, when she arrived on a fiancée visa to marry Christopher Watkins, 54, now her husband, whom she’d met on Facebook. Soon after she earned citizenship, she registered to vote and was looking forward to casting her first ballot in this year’s presidential election.
, has championed legislation to require documentary proof of citizenship. Former President Donald Trump and his allies have falsely claimed that voting by noncitizens is widespread and that Democrats want to let them vote in November. Voting rights advocates and experts say there's little evidence that noncitizens register or vote in any great numbers.
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